Ich war neugierig, wie viele Dinge Microsoft „Copilot“ genannt hat, und konnte keine einzige Quelle finden, die sie alle auflistete. Also habe ich eines erstellt.
Endgültige Zahl per März 2026: 78 separat benannte, separat vermarktete Produkte, Funktionen und Dienstleistungen.
Die Visualisierung gruppiert sie nach Kategorien, wobei die Punktgröße ungefähr der relativen Bekanntheit basierend auf dem Google-Suchvolumen und der Berichterstattung in der Presse entspricht. Linien zeigen an, wo sich Produkte überlappen, zusammenbündeln oder ineinander liegen.
Prozess: Verwendung eines Web Scrapers + gründliche Recherche zum systematischen Durchsuchen von Microsoft-Pressemitteilungen und Produktdokumentationen. Dann Deduplizierung und Kategorisierung. Querverweise basierend auf einer Python-Funktion, die identifiziert, wo die Produktdokumentation auf ein anderes Produkt verweist, das entweder innerhalb eines anderen Produkts funktioniert oder ein Unterprodukt eines anderen ist.
Interaktive Version: https://teybannerman.com/strategy/2026/03/31/how-many-microsoft-copilot-are-ther.html
Datenquellen: Microsoft-Produktdokumentation, Pressemitteilungen, Marketingseiten und Markteinführungsankündigungen. März 2026.
Werkzeuge: Flourish
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Interestingly, not living in the Microsoft universe, I’ve completely forgotten Copilot existed. When Claude times me out, I don’t think, „Oh, I’ll go ask Copilot. It’s my AI companion!“.
I want a copilot for my copilot so that I can copilot while I copilot… 365 days in a year!
And I won’t use any of them.
So do they all suck, or just the ones that I have to use at work?
The weirdest part is different orgs are responsible for the RnD of different Copilots. So they’re not all developed by the same division, even removing GitHub Copilot.
Excellent work. You just mapped Microsofts internal team structure 🙂 Every node here is a „Senior Manager“ or Director with a fiefdom.
The incentives seem to short sighted promotion cycles instead of actual cohesive product development. All of this should be under a single head instead of insanely competing priorities.
The github copilot stuff is actually solid. It lets you use several different models, all with per-prompt usage versus api or subscription usage like claude code, and it’s well-integrated into vs code. With how quickly the claude quota dries up lately, being able to craft a long prompt for opus and only use one (or 3 since its currently 3x) credit is good. They have all the latest models.
Copilot is the least intelligent AI
Years ago, during the browser wars of the 1990s, Microsoft did the same thing after introducing ActiveX – nearly every Microsoft product was rebranded “Active something.”
Today, it’s “Copilot something”or “something Copilot”.
The only remaining artifact of the “Active something” obsession AFAIK is **Active Directory**, which was rebranded to that name during the “Active something” phase. The many other “Active something” products were later rebranded to something else.
Shoutout to Cornelius for leading the original “ActiveX” branding!
Copilot in word or visual studio is the same product. A bit deceiving this post.
And they work differently and have their own features—impossible to train others on it
Catch and uninstall them all.
„78 Copilots“ – that’s a band name.
So, who else here remembers when .NET was on everything and nobody really knew what the hell it was? Or when „Live“ got stuck on nearly every service Microsoft had?
This is a deeply entrenched MS habit.
Yeah, it’s a branding mess.
I thank my lucky stars I don’t use Microsoft tech every day.